pipeweed /ˈpaɪpwiːd/ noun7 •Tobacco prepared for smoking in a pipe; also, the leaves of herbs or other plants prepared for such use.I took the pipe and sniffed. Pipeweed had the aroma of the finest Moroccan Mauve. I inhaled. It was strong stuff. — 1969 •Any of a number of plants having thin and straight stems resembling pipes, often hollow or lacking branches.Equisetaceae rivalled "the mast of some great ammiral," in localities where they dwarfed representatives, the horse-tail and pipe-weed of our bogs, stand only a few inches high. — 1837 •The common horsetail or field horsetail (Equisetum arvense). •(US) The desert trumpet (Eriogonum inflatum) which has a straight stem with a swollen portion; formerly some Native American tribes in the Las Vegas Valley area turned such stems into pipes for smoking by removing the stem at the base and cutting the swollen portion in half to serve as a bowl. •(no longer used) The redrattle (Pedicularis flammea), a parasitic plant having hollow stems.Fistulária […] Pipe-vveed; so called because its stalk is hollovv. — 1797 •(no longer used) A type of seaweed with tubelike fronds; especially the sea lettuce (Ulva intestinalis). •(no longer used) An unidentified sessile marine invertebrate, probably a soft coral or sponge.
